Charity Quotes - Page 20

Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.

Charities must treat donors as if they were shareholders.

IIFA is always involved in charity, and that's why it's a great thing that I am a part of IIFA and will continue to work along with them.

The thing about all these charities is that who sees where the money goes? I don't and you don't. For all I know, the president of Make a Wish just used all the money to buy himself a mansion and a yacht. That's why I keep all of my money for myself, at least then I know I'm doing good for at least one person for sure.

Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.

Heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave.

Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy, To be corrupted with my worthless gifts.

Fortune reigns in gifts of the world.

My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!

All thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test; here, afore heaven, I ratify this my rich gift.

She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but if she lost it Or made a gift of it, my father's eye Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt After new fancies.

I am not in the giving vein today.

We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.

Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

That's the trouble with our charities; we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain't eating.

Reaching into someone else's pocket to assist one's fellow man hardly qualifies as charity.

The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

Whoever would entitle himself after death through the merits of his Redeemer, to the noblest of rewards, let him serve God throughout life in this most excellent of all duties, doing good to our brethren. Whoever is sensible of his offences, let him take this way especially of evidencing his repentance.

I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.

Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun!

A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.

Reform, like charity, must begin at home.

Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.

When Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we cannot give, that the refusal pleases as much as the gift.